Over the next 365 days I want to FINISH something I have already started! "So here's what I think: The best thing you can do right now is to finish what you started last year and not let those good intentions grow stale. Your heart's been in the right place all along. You've got what it takes to finish it up, so go to it": 2 Cor. 8:10 (The Message)

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Day 18 Here is how a simple finish sometimes goes ... (in my "crazy"
life anyways) - Find the "perfect enough" frame (which is not so easy
to do), open up the back of the frame, remove cardboard and that nice
picture of some people I don't know, place my item in frame, replace
cardboard and press down all the little metal tabs that hold it in
place, turn it over to realize the pic is upside down, repeat all the
above one more time and double check the item is right side up, then I
measure and measure again so I know where the nails get hammered into
the wall, hammer in the nails, but the hangers on back don't reach
because I measured the whole frame instead of hanger to hanger, measure
again and move nails only for the picture to now hang VERY crooked;
measure again and re-adjust one of the nails but see I took it an 1/8th
of an inch too low; remeasure, re-hammer, and after filling ALL the
holes, wait for it to dry, do two coats of touch up paint (because one
didn't cover the mud up entirely), wait for that to dry, and finally,
after an all day, 5-minute job, I finish framing and hanging this map of
the southern gulf coast. .... LOVE IT! And my crazy existence! I have
to say this .... I saw it through to the bitter end! HA!

Comments: Vickie Dyck: Days
like that have MANY MANY moments where you could just as easily throw
your hands up and QUIT! BUT I am very proud of you for holding out
throw to the "bitter end"! (I must say I have had the same kind of day
hanging pictures myself )Sheryl Schmidt: LOL. Is it wrong that I giggled while reading this?

Tanja Funk: After
the many, many, MANY lopsided, too many holes in the wall, picture
hanging fiasco's, I now use 3M velcro strips for pretty much every
wallhanging.

Karen Martens: No Sheryl, in fact, I kind of do the same while shaking my head ... at myself! What more can you do? Thanks Tanja, I will have to look for that stuff and see how it works.